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Network card troubleshooting
From the course: CompTIA A+ Core 1 (220-1101) Cert Prep
Network card troubleshooting
If you want an individual computer or, as we often say, host in the networking world to connect to your network, it's going to need some kind of network card. So what I got right here is a very old school Network Interface Card or NIC. So it's actually a card and you would snap it into your computer. And if you look here on the end, it's got a little RJ45 connector, and this is how we connected to our networks. We had to actually stamp this in, came with a driver's disk. We've done that stuff before. Now, network cards are almost never simple cards anymore. They're almost always built in. Like, for example, here I got this motherboard here. And it's got a built in network card. Even this laptop here has got a built in NIC. So let's get some terminology down right now. Even though nobody uses a card anymore, we still call it a network card or a NIC. It's I guess it's just an interface now, but we use the term network card or…
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